Body Composition QTLs Identified in Intercross Populations Are Reproducible in Consomic Mouse Strains

Genetic variation contributes to individual differences in obesity, but defining the exact relationships between naturally occurring genotypes and their effects on fatness remains elusive. As a step toward positional cloning of previously identified body composition quantitative trait loci (QTLs) fr...

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Main Authors: Lin, Cailu, Fesi, Brad D., Marquis, Michael, Bosak, Natalia P., Theodorides, Maria L., Avigdor, Mauricio, McDaniel, Amanda H., Duke, Fujiko F., Lysenko, Anna, Khoshnevisan, Amin, Gantick, Brian R., Arayata, Charles J., Nelson, Theodore M., Bachmanov, Alexander A., Reed, Danielle R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638354/